AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 70, 15 August 1938, Page 2

AMUSEMENTS

“WALTER WANGER’S VOGUES OF 1938”

LAVISH. TECILNICOLOFR, -MUSICAL COMEDY

Too seldom are films produced that are so different that they start a new trend in motion pictures. Such a picture is “Walter Wanger’s Vogues of 1938”', which screens at the De Luxe Theatre on Tuesday and Wednesday, it is a completely unique production that combines a story rare in dynamic pace and hilarious comedy. The lavishness of its production and its pictorial beauty, in which the power of the modern Teelmicolour camera shows new technical refinements, reaches its peak to date. Warner Baxter and Joan Bennett head the dazzling array of stage, screen and radio stars in this gay romantic tale of Manhattan which incidentally offers glimpses of next year’s fashions in fun, dances, music and gowns. Helen Vinson, Miseha Auer, Alan Mowbray, and Jerome Cowan head the imposing supporting east, which includes Marjorie Gateson, Dorothy McNulty, Alma Gruger, Polly Rowles and the famous Walter Wanger Models, beauteous winners of the producer’s nationwide search for “the most photographed girls in the world.” The story, an original screenplay from the typewriters of Samuel and Bella, Spewaek, easts Baxter as a heman couturier, head of the fashionable “House of Ourson,” while Joan Bennett plays a beautiful New York debutante who jilts a multi-million-aire on her wedding day to become a. mannequin.

Helen Vinson contributes complications as Baxter’s extravagant stagestruck wife; .(lowan is seen as her angel-hunting manager; Mowbray plays the jilted millionaire who tries to put Baxter out of business by backing Miseha Auer, playing an impecunious Russian prince, in a rival fashion house. The production introduces several new song hits, including “That Old Feeling” by Lew Brown and Sammy Fain; “Lovely One” by Frank Loesser and Mhnning Sherwin; ancl “Red Hot Heat” and “Fall Fashipn Fore' : cast” bv Louis Altai*..... and 7 -Raul" Fv, Webster. ....